Election 2012: Winners and losers

President Obama rolled to reelection on Nov. 6, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and triumphing despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle-class dreams of millions.
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US Senate

Democrat Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor who promised to battle for a struggling middle class, defeated incumbent Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts US Senate race, despite Brown’s attempts to paint himself as a one of a dying breed: a moderate New England Republican.
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Voters approved a ballot question that makes Massachusetts the 18th state to legalize medical marijuana. With 92 percent of the vote counted, 63 percent had voted in favor of the measure and 37 percent against it.

Massachusetts voters also passed the “Right to Repair” ballot question, meaning the new law requiring automakers to provide independent repair shops as well as dealers with easy access to the computer codes needed to diagnose complex car problems will need to be reconciled with compromise legislation passed after ballot questions were approved.
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US House | Massachusetts

Representative Richard Neal (pictured) in the 1st District was unopposed. Neal is a former Springfield mayor who represented the 2nd Congressional District and will now represent the 1st District. His new district is the state’s largest and includes 87 cities and towns from Williamstown, in the northwest, to Dudley, on the Connecticut border.
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US House | Massachusetts

Democrat Jim McGovern had no opponents. In the new 2nd District, he is representing much of central Massachusetts.
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US House | Massachusetts

Democrat Niki Tsongas (left) defeated Republican challenger Jon Golnik to win a third full term in the 3rd District.
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US House | Massachusetts

Democrat Joseph Kennedy III (left) defeated Republican Sean Bielat in the race for the state’s redrawn 4th District. Kennedy, grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and son of former US Representative Joseph Kennedy, was the first of his generation in the family to run for office. He will take the seat now held by retiring Democrat Barney Frank.
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US House | Massachusetts

Democrat Ed Markey (left) won reelection for the 5th District seat that includes Boston’s northern and western suburbs. Markey beat Republican Tom Tierney (right), an actuary from Framingham.
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US House | Massachusetts

US Representative John F. Tierney (left) barely held onto win a ninth term, prevailing by the narrowest margin since he first won the 6th District seat in 1996. Tierney beat Republican Richard Tisei.
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US House | Massachusetts

Michael Capuano (picutred) had no Republican opponent and defeated independent Karla Romero in the 7th District.
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